Something is rotten in Okinawa… The floating smell of death hangs over the island. What is it? A strange, legged fish appears on the scene… So begins Tadashi and Kaori’s spiral into the horror and stench of the sea. Here is the creepiest masterpiece of horror manga ever from the creator of Uzumaki, Junji Ito. Hold your breath until all is revealed.

Gyo is creepy story about dead bodies that remain active even within a state of advanced decay due to strange machines that attach to their bodies, powered by the gases of putrefaction.

Depending on what I move to what chapter, I may have to re-edit/revise said chapter; however, I’m finally back on track with Chapter 11. That’s where I decided to go back and revise so I’m back where I started. I was up quite late last night doing some work on it. My biggest issue with this chapter is organization and where to add in extra notes, but that’s where color-coding comes in 😉

This is not supposed to be a once a month post, but the last scheduled one was on 7/10, which is my big brother’s birthday and we went out to dinner for that. By the time I got home it was really late and I was really tired, but he’d had a great time with a bunch of his friends and family, and that’s all that matters. If I wasn’t so fat and sleepy, I wouldn’t have neglected you fine people, but now you get to see what I’ve been up to for the past month.

What I Finished

Title: The House of Da VinciSystem: iPhone (8)

Date Started: June 25, 2018Date Finished: Unknown

If you like The Room series, I highly recommend this one to you, too. I think I paid $4.99 for it in the iPhone app store, and it was worth every penny. It comes with clues similar to The Room, but I needed some extra help as I neared the end (possibly due to my own laziness/concentration issues). I wound up tapping a walk-through, which not only had text guidance but video as well. Some of the clues left me stumped so this was really useful. The music in the game was phenomenal, as well, with the mien you’d expect for Da Vinci’s time. I’d give the game a 4/5.

Beatrice De Novo thought she had left the supernatural world behind…for the most part. But when the past becomes the present, will she leave her quiet life in Los Angeles to follow a mystery she thought had abandoned her? Where has Giovanni Vecchio been, and why has he returned? Giovanni has his own questions, and he’s looking to her for answers.

The sequel to A Hidden Fire will reunite Beatrice and Giovanni to continue their search through the past while both wrestle with the future. When the world as you knew it has changed forever, is there any way you can turn back?

I read the first book A Hidden Fireyears ago, but never managed to review it. It was a refreshing deviation from other vampire paranormal romances where the main characters were actually right for each other despite their distance in years. Beatrice De Novo is a librarian, so by nature of that occupational mindset, she meshed well with Giovanni Vecchio’s scholarly pursuits, even though he’s centuries older. This is far less creepy than a 200 year old going after a high school student. Librarians, historians, and other of that ilk would have the intellectual capacity to intrigue someone hundreds of years their senior. Appearances may fade (at least for mortals), but good conversation is eternal.

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I’ve had this award idea waiting in the wings ever since I was nominated for a PANDA Award by none other than Mr. Panda. The WordPress blogging community has done so much for me in just a few short years. When I started blogging, I did it to have a place to write without feeling constantly judged or feel like I was in some kind of popularity contest for likes, which plagues other platforms. I wasn’t overly concerned with reactions or comments here; I just wanted the space to say what I wanted, write my essays, and have my own site to post my fanfiction. I never imagined I’d become part of a fantastic group of bloggers who talk unabashedly about gaming, writing, anime, movies, and whatever the hell they want without impunity or undue judgment. This is what true nerdom means to me. I thought I was fed up and finished with most new games and most modern gamers, but then I realized through the friends I’ve made here that I didn’t need to use that defense mechanism anymore. I didn’t need to be the “perfect” gamer in order to prove myself despite my gender. I just had to be me.

This was fantastic. All of the characters were complex, and many of them were rightfully bitter about their fate. They might have been attempting to play a big, happy family, but there were a welter of unresolved issues centering around their inability to escape the situation. I’ll be continuing this series and reviewing the entire thing when done.

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This is one of those “free to do” tags that I snagged from The Writing Hufflepuff. We’ve been having some awesome vent-fests in her comments, and when I saw this, I figured it would give me an excuse to talk (more) about myself. This is actually a tag from this month. I’m caught up on all my old ones, but still keeping up with my schedule/to-do list.

Where do you typically write your blog posts?

Right here with my butt on the new sectional. Before we had the new sectional, I wrote them on the old sectional. I used to go into the bedroom to do any kind of writing work, but there’s no place to sit comfortably in there unless I set up my table and drag my husband’s gaming chair in. It’s so much easier to just sit in the front room and pop on some headphones if the hubby is watching/playing something.

How long does it generally take you to write a book review?

It really depends on a number of factors. If I loved the book and it was an in depth story, it could take me over a month to say everything I need to say. If it’s a DNF (did not finish), those usually only take me one or two writing sessions to bang out (with the first one being the review set up), since it won’t take me too long to say why I gave up on it. On average, it probably takes me two or three sessions to write a review, so a week?